Peadar Tóibín Aontú’s Peadar Tóibín TD has urged President Michael D. Higgins to withdraw his recent comments which referred to schools in the North as “parcels of hate”, describing them as a “caricature”.
“The idea that schools in the North are responsible for the division in the North is an incredible example of revisionism,” Mr Tóibín said in a statement.
“Division in the North is as a result of partition, it’s as a result of decades of an orange state discriminating against nationalists and Catholics in terms of housing, jobs and rights.”
He went on to say that Catholic schools have achieved “great results” in terms of fighting disadvantage, with the numbers of students going on to university after attending Catholic schools in disadvantaged areas “greatly improving”.